Crossword for Fri, 28/Nov/2008

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Across
1: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)

7: Lovely to have an hour inside for recess (5)

9: Victor receives this prize literally or decoration (4,5)

11: Sit on marsupials and rats tail (5)

12: Grasp a rag usefully wrapping vegetable (9)

13: Blowing siren over corruption on the job (2-7)

15: Clean, polished spear (5)

16: How Nero holds one in control (5)

18: Intoxicated with dances and drinks (9)

20: Defile broken seed box (9)

22: Junker left Alaskan city heading north (5)

23: Moderately amphibian, for example, by the middle of the creek (2,1,6)

25: Birds in the wilderness (5)

27: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)
Down
1: Throw out faulty nib (3)

2: More pronounced rasp (7)

3: Encourage horse led with direction. (3)

4: Last year said to be decadent (7)

5: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

6: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

8: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

10: Lick up pal (3)

11: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

12: Religious types taking some time in the morning? (5)

14: Predatory bird decapitated dog (5)

17: Little Richard was follwed by aliens, being bowed at the knees. (7)

19: About fifty-one complaints - they're thought to be true (7)

21: Song is a gas (3)

24: The time before the first woman (3)

26: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)




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